The Israeli IC will be extremely opinionated and will fight for their opinions, and if it makes sense from a business perspective, the strategy would change. But the Israeli IC when fighting these battles would also try to make a business case.

That’s not because they have different engineering perspectives, that’s an Israeli cultural trait. Israeli’s tend to index more towards directness in their communication. That’s definitely not the case with someone from, say, India.

Americans fall somewhere in between.

True, but it still doesn't detract from the skills issues I have mentioned ad nauseum.

I am basically paying 1.5-2x for talent who lacks basic domain experience depending on the subfield.